Now Cootha isn't too far out of the way in my commute to work, i'm doing a loop here and there. Got my PB down to 9:56 today Not sure how much further it will come down.. working harder gears is definitely helping!

vbplease wrote:Now Cootha isn't too far out of the way in my commute to work, i'm doing a loop here and there. Got my PB down to 9:56 today Not sure how much further it will come down.. working harder gears is definitely helping!

well done! Sub 10min is motoring I reckon. Cootha can easily be on my way to/from work, but I suck at hills, so tend to avoid it. I did the Botanic Gardens hill on the way home today and set a PB. Now if I could just go at that pace for 2.2km I'd be laughing.... and still nowhere near sub 10min!

vbplease wrote:Now Cootha isn't too far out of the way in my commute to work, i'm doing a loop here and there. Got my PB down to 9:56 today Not sure how much further it will come down.. working harder gears is definitely helping!

vbplease wrote:Now Cootha isn't too far out of the way in my commute to work, i'm doing a loop here and there. Got my PB down to 9:56 today Not sure how much further it will come down.. working harder gears is definitely helping!

vbplease wrote:Now Cootha isn't too far out of the way in my commute to work, i'm doing a loop here and there. Got my PB down to 9:56 today Not sure how much further it will come down.. working harder gears is definitely helping!

Well done on the sub 10min. Just as a matter of interest, what gear were you pushing?

Thanks guys in the past I've been a total wuss with the gears and stayed in 39x28 the whole way fearing my legs would instantly blow up.. For that last ride my gears went something like – 39x23 for the first 400m to try and carry some momentum from the downhill section. Then change down to 39x25 for the majority of it.. when I come to the section I call “the wall” – gradient goes to 14% according to my garmin at the right hand bend followed by 300m straight section, I change back to 39x23 and get out of the saddle. Finish most of it in 39x25 in the saddle, except for the last 100m I get back out of the saddle, but don’t change the gear because my legs are cooked.

vbplease wrote:Now Cootha isn't too far out of the way in my commute to work, i'm doing a loop here and there. Got my PB down to 9:56 today Not sure how much further it will come down.. working harder gears is definitely helping!

Well done! Is that the 'Strava' segment or actual marker to marker.I know the difference between my two times is 20 seconds.

That's using the strava segment called "Mt Coot-tha back". http://app.strava.com/segments/615163Hopefully that's what everyone else has been referring to? I think that segment stops about 75m short of the marker.. near the ABC entrance.

Mate got fined for no bell coming down Cootha back this morning. Cop overtook us going up and stopped him on the way down, went over the bike, $50 fine for no bell then told him he can go whine about it on a bike forum. "With honour we serve".

Purt wrote:Mate got fined for no bell coming down Cootha back this morning. Cop overtook us going up and stopped him on the way down, went over the bike, $50 fine for no bell then told him he can go whine about it on a bike forum. "With honour we serve".

I saw a bloke pulled over going down the front this morning. I figured it was for speeding so I yelled out "check he's got a bell"

$6 a for a bell. you don't have to use it, just throw it on your bike /rant.

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